This document is very brief. It is a screen shot of the LDS Church MLS program showing an individual Member Record screen with an alert box displayed with the following text and buttons:

Members may not have copies of their membership records. Under no circumstances may membership records be given to anyone other than the bishop or a clerk.

Although members may not have copies of their membership records, they are encouraged to have copies of their Individual Ordinance Sumary (IOS) for themselves and any dependent children living at home ("Church Handbook of Instructions," [2006], 145). To print an IOS, please go to the Membership Records panel and click More. Then go to the Print Record Panel and click on Individual's IOS.

1. A cursory Google search doen't show that this document or its subject has been leaked previously.

2. This file is important because

a. it shows the 13 million member Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in September 2008 strongly restricting its members' access to their own member records.

b. it is an actual screen shot of the "membership record" printing terms that are displayed when a church leader goes to print a membership record

c. it is a new technology implementation in September 2008

3. The likely audience for this leak, since it is bite sized and accessible rather than voluminous and esoteric, is LDS watch groups, mainstream press in areas with significant LDS population, and even the general public.

4. This submittal can be verified by telephoning LDS Church headquarters spokespeople regarding "a new precaution added in MLS version 2.9 to prevent members inadvertently receiving their membership records."

5. This document was leaked because the whistleblower thought the implementation was scandalous and that it newly required leaders to either comply with the policy, perjure themselves, or employ creative reasoning.

6. There is an event that makes the document timely. The technology update was made in the past 8 days. There is no impending event that makes the publication urgent.